Bring the whole family and join us for a Summer Sing-Along in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden! Led by musicians Saskia Lane, Emily Eagan, & Skye Soto Steele this hour-long program will engage children and their parents through musical play, singing, songwriting, dancing, and more.
Recommended for ages 3 – 7 and their parents/guardians.
Click HERE for the 4 PM program.
Bring the whole family and join us for an afternoon of fun! Visit a new exhibition, Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden, then head to the Phanstiel Pavilion out front for a special project inspired by the vibrant installation, and a family-friendly Silent Dance Party, including hype dancers from Our Fabulous Variety Show. Music will be broadcast to three channels on wireless headphones featuring all your favorite tunes from a range of genres.
The Carvel Ice Cream Truck will be dishing up free soft serve in the parking lot courtesy of Urban Standard Capital, plus complimentary cookies from Citarella, Cocojune Kids Pouches, and JUST Water. Additional refreshments will be available for purchase from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby.
Don’t miss out on the family fun!
Join Guild Hall and the GH Teen Arts Council as we march in the Second Annual Hamptons Pride Parade!
Following last year’s inaugural runaway success, Mayor Jerry Larsen has asked local nonprofit Hamptons Pride to continue organizing the parade, and the East Hampton Village Police to again expertly direct it. The lineup starts at 11 am on Main Street near Pondview Lane and Guild Hall, and the parade kicks off at noon. Registered participants will march east on Main Street to Newtown Lane, Railroad Avenue, and Lumber Lane, ending in Herrick Park, where there will be music and celebration with D.J. Karin Ward until 3 pm.
The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) will participate in the parade with a “Pep Rally For Mental Health.” Facilitated by queer Latin X installation artist, MAGO, GHTAC has spent the last few months discussing the hardships the teen and LGBTQ+ community face in the Hamptons, and the resources available to us to speak and combat them. In this way, GHTAC has collaborated and coordinated to form a simple message; one of the most complex issues we face in our community can be surmounted as long as we are willing to speak about it – loud and proud.
The “Pep Rally For Mental Health” will include a student-led marching band, choreographed audience participation, and bright stunt cards bearing messaging and keywords centered around mental health and inter-community support. Patrons who want to march with Guild Hall can contact Anthony Madonna at amadonna@guildhall.org.
The celebration of PRIDE and community continues after the parade at GHTAC’s inaugural fashion show, Leibers Legacy: A Teen Fashion Show.
ABOUT GUILD HALL TEEN ARTS COUNCIL
The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) is the region’s first paid teen arts program. As employees of Guild Hall, GHTAC members work to curate public programming, advance their creativity, increase Guild Hall’s outreach to local teens, and learn through collaboration with Guild Hall staff.
ABOUT HAMPTONS PRIDE
Hamptons Pride, Inc. is a not-for-profit public charity (tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code – EIN 86-3600121) that celebrates and commemorates the LGBTQ+ people and their allies on the East End of Long Island. Established by locals for the benefit of locals, the organization’s founding goal is the creation of an historical marker and outdoor social area on the footprint of The Swamp (the last and longest-running gay club in the Hamptons) in what is now Wainscott Green, a park in the Town of East Hampton. Hamptons Pride’s services, including the annual Hamptons Pride Parade on the first Saturday in June, are made possible by the generosity of individuals, foundations, and corporations. https://hamptonspride.org/
Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons
By Paul Goldberger
Photographs by Iwan Baan
This is the story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the Hamptons. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton—Blue Dream, the result of a remarkable collaboration between collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, who together with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, builder Ed Bulgin, landscape architect Michael Boucher, and designer Michael Lewis, sought to renew the legacy of modernist architecture and art in the Hamptons.
Goldberger offers insight into the complex process by which an architectural idea generated a work that stands as the most striking addition of our time to the roster of architecturally ambitious modernist houses on Long Island. As he notes, “There are relatively few books devoted to the architecture of a single house, but what is clear if you read any of them is that they are stories about clients as much as about architects.” So it is with Blue Dream, where the Taubmans were inspired by the avant-garde spirit of artists and architects who settled and worked in the Hamptons and set out to create a house like no other, a house whose complex curving forms could only be built using the composite material used to make fighter jets.
Iwan Baan’s photographic portfolio documents Blue Dream across four seasons. Goldberger’s text is illustrated with images of earlier modernist houses that inspired the project, as well as documentation of the design process involved in the making of Blue Dream itself.
Join Carmela Ciuraru, author of the critically acclaimed Lives of the Wives (selected as one of the “Best Books of 2023 so far” by The New York Times) for an insightful and humorous conversation with her longtime friend, the renowned journalist Katie Couric.
The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, ruthless ambition, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it’s easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy, short-lived, and mutually destructive. “It’s been my experience,” as the critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote, “that nobody holds a man’s brutality to his wife against him.” Literary wives are a unique breed, requiring a particular kind of fortitude.
Lives of the Wives is a witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process and the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships. The book pays tribute to these women, and the price they paid for their own creative ambition, success, and freedom. The Washington Post praises Lives of the Wives as “a tour de force….the stories Ciuraru tells are gripping, horrific, and sometimes even funny—but most of all they are important.”
A limited number of copies of Lives of the Wives will be available for purchase and signing, or the book can be purchased in advance with the ticket + book price.
This program will take place in Guild Hall’s Marks Family Gallery South.
THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT. A waiting list will be taken IN PERSON ONLY at 6:30 PM on Monday, July 17.
Join us at The Leiber Collection for Guild Hall Teen Arts Council’s inaugural fashion show, Leiber’s Legacy.
Inspired by the Judith Leiber Collection and in partnership with the Ladies Village Improvement Society, the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council has designed and curated a line of repurposed fashion. The evening will begin with a runway show hosted by stylist, dancer, and drag performer, Danny Ximo, where each Guild Hall Teen Arts Council member will walk the runway in their very own design, and conclude with a reception in The Leiber Collection’s Garden.
Audiences are encouraged to bring their own chairs, blankets, etc., and to arrive early to explore The Leiber Collection.
ABOUT GUILD HALL TEEN ARTS COUNCIL
The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) is the region’s first paid teen arts program. As employees of Guild Hall, GHTAC members work to curate public programming, advance their creativity, increase Guild Hall’s outreach to local teens, and learn through collaboration with Guild Hall staff.
Click HERE for more info.
ABOUT THE LEIBER COLLECTION
The Leiber Collection is a beautiful jewel of a museum surrounded by a sublime sculpture garden located on Long Island in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. Created as a nexus of Art, Fashion and Culture by its founders, famed Artful Handbag Designer Judith Leiber and celebrated Modernist Artist Gerson Leiber, it is a rare treat located in The Springs. leibermuseum.org
ABOUT THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
Since their founding in 1895, the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society has been dedicated to keeping East Hampton one of the most beautiful villages in America. They maintain our wonderful trees and greens, provide scholarships to local high school students, preserve local landmarks, and host community events and programs for all ages, including their annual summer fair, Halloween and holiday open houses, Easter egg hunt, visits with seniors, and so much more. Community outreach is vital to the LVIS mission, and their partnerships with local schools and not-for profit organizations continue to expand. For nearly 70 years, the LVIS has awarded college scholarships to East Hampton High School seniors and adult women seeking a college degree to enhance their long-term career prospects. This year they awarded over $190,000 in scholarship monies to 24 students and 2 adult women.
lvis.org
This program is now sold out.
Join Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence, Jacob Jonas The Company (JJTC) for an Open Class. This 1-hour physical movement class will combine calisthenics, yoga, and an introduction to the JJTC system.
Jacob Jonas The Company (JJTC) is a Los Angeles based creative company that intersects dance across mediums to make original works and initiates nontraditional collaborations. JJTC has created over 100 original works for the stage and the camera. Presentations in live performance include Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
ABOUT GUILD HALL WILLIAM P. RAYNER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
The Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence (WPR AiR) program offers artist collectives the time and space to research, experiment, and develop new ideas and projects. Artists are provided with creative mentorships, administrative support, a commissioning fee, living space, and a purpose-built.
Throughout several 2-4 weeklong residencies, residents connect with accomplished artists, community leaders, and philanthropists at weekly salon dinners. They receive mentorship from select members of the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts, closer collaborators, and professional staff while visiting artist studios, cultural centers, and the natural landscape of the Hamptons. The program culminates with a works-in-process presentation for an invited or public audience.
Residents are invited to the program by a committee of celebrated artists, creative professionals, Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts members, and Senior Leadership. Past selection committee members and creative mentors have included Alice Aycock, Laurie Anderson, Jon Robbie Baitz, Carter Burwell, Eric Fischl, RoseLee Goldberg, Ugo Rondinone, Phil Schultz, and Susan Stroman.
Artist Collectives selected for the 2023 Guild Hall WPR AiR include Hamptons Dance Project, Music From The Sole, The Beatbox House, and Jacob Jonas The Company.
Witness internationally renowned soprano Lisette Oropesa as she coaches the 2023 Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artists. This program is part of Oropesa’s week in-residence, during which time she will rehearse ensembles with resident artists who will join her in a recital accompanied by Bel Canto Boot Camp mentors, Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff on Saturday, August 12.
ABOUT GUILD HALL & BEL CANTO BOOT CAMP RESIDENT ARTIST SERIES
The Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artist Series is a collaboration between Guild Hall of East Hampton and Bel Canto Boot Camp. By providing individualized training from Bel Canto Boot Camp mentors and masterclasses with international artists, the series aims to support a new generation of emerging opera singers and to increase awareness and appreciation of the unamplified voice.
The 2023 Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artists include soprano Siskelelwe Mngenela, soprano Elizabeth Novella, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley, tenor Derrek Stark, bass-baritone Michael Leyte-Vidal, and baritone David Wolfe.
Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa who has “an endless supply of golden-age trills,” (Opera News) and has a voice that is “brightly crystalline and arrestingly powerful,” (New York Times)
She has a “technique without weakness” (Codalario) and “everything she touches turns into gold” (Place de l’Opéra)
Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa has become one of her generation’s most sought after lyric coloraturas. Highly praised for her seamless voice, precise coloratura, magnetic stage presence, and innate musicality, Oropesa and Bel Canto Boot Camp co-founders, Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff, will present an intimate recital of bel canto repertoire.
A unique highlight of the program will be several duets and ensembles featuring Oropesa and the 2023 Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artists. The recital will conclude Oropesa’s week in-residence at Guild Hall, during which she will lead private coachings and a public masterclass with the 2023 Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artists.
The recital will be followed by a reception in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden hosted by artist and Guild Hall Board of Trustee member, Lucy Cookson. The reception is open only to those who have purchased a “Recital + Reception Ticket.”
ABOUT GUILD HALL & BEL CANTO BOOT CAMP RESIDENT ARTIST SERIES
The Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artist Series is a collaboration between Guild Hall of East Hampton and Bel Canto Boot Camp. By providing individualized training from Bel Canto Boot Camp mentors and masterclasses with international artists, the series aims to support a new generation of emerging opera singers and to increase awareness and appreciation of the unamplified voice.
The 2023 GH & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artists include soprano Siskelelwe Mngenela, soprano Elizabeth Novella, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley, tenor Derrek Stark, bass-baritone Michael Leyte-Vidal, and baritone David Wolfe.
Join Emily Johnson and IV Castellanos at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio as we build a Kinstillatory Fire and collectively think, dream, and activate community futures through forms of dance, song, feasting, and witnessing.
Building the fire itself is a process; a practice of provocation; an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness; a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now. Fireside, we will gather to think and practice, as artists and community leaders articulate thoughts on protection, our collective futures, and other possibilities.
“Fire’s capacity as a kin-making technology resides in the ephemeral effect, the pauses and breaks of the in-between spaces created by the flames.” (Emily Johnson & Karyn Recollet, 2019).
The evening is presented as part of GATHER: Conversations Led by Black & Indigenous Changemakers, co-produced by Guild Hall and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio. Revenue from the program will equally support Learning & Public Programs at both Guild Hall and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio. Patrons are highly encouraged to carpool to Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio.
ABOUT EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST
Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigneous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.
ABOUT GATHER: CONVERSATIONS LED BY BLACK & INDIGENOUS CHANGEMAKERS
GATHER spotlights the voices of BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders, providing lessons on Black & Indigenous histories & traditions, and strategies for moving forward together. The program is co-produced by Guild Hall and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio. Founded by Jeremy Dennis, artist and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Ma’s House is a communal art space that includes a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), an art studio, and library. The series was awarded a 2022 Engaging Communities Award of Merit from the Museum Association of New York.